Thomas Hempel 
Thomas Hempel has 22 years experience in Management. Currently, Thomas is senior director of Engineering at NetApp, Inc., where he is in charge of Support Automation Products, Infrastructure, Processes, and Information Engineering. He is in charge of all capital planning and engineering labs. His achievements at NetApp include building and making productive six different global but unified organizations, working with the Service organization to create profitable products like Autosupport Premium, and helping create the company’s industry leading DITA-compliant information architecture. He has also led the lab organizations in creating world-class energy efficient data centers and is currently leading the virtualization and consolidation across the Engineering organization.
Previously, Thomas worked as VPE at E.piphany where he led the switch to Agile development as well as making the Octane products actually work. He has long been interested in the connection between tools, processes, and productivity, as well as how to make offshore development work. A Stanford graduate, he likes investing, trains, Phil Lesh, and wandering around Shanghai.
Marilson Campos
Marilson Campos has been leading the development of engineering products for the last 20 years. He currently oversees all engineering functions of the GlobalEnglish learning services and is responsible for the delivery of the company’s product roadmap. Prior to joining GlobalEnglish, Marilson served as CTO/VPE for Fortune 100 as well as startup companies, including JP Morgan, ActiveTools, and TechSys, among others. He has spent his career developing organizations that create highly scalable systems utilizing agile processes. He successfully built several large-scale software products, including Cade.com.br, the largest search engine in Latin America, which is now part of Yahoo! His portfolio also includes a number of enterprise web portals and a wide range of e-commerce projects. He enjoys traveling with his wife and his two kids.
Leo Dagum
As VP of Information Architecture Engineering at Business.com, Leo Dagum is responsible for all development and related engineering functions in web information retrieval, business intelligence and yield management. Prior to Business.com, Leo was VPE at Rapt Inc., a global provider of profit optimization software with Fortune 500 customers across multiple industry verticals. At Rapt, he successfully drove major new product initiatives and introduced new optimization and analytics technologies into Rapt’s flagship product while also transforming engineering development from a traditional Waterfall model to an Agile methodology.
Prior to Rapt, Leo held management and research positions at Silicon Graphics and NASA Ames Research Center. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University and B.S. in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University, Kingston. Leo enjoys surfing, backpacking, and traveling with his wife and three wonderful daughters.
Sam Hahn
Sam Hahn is VPE at eGain. Before joining eGain, Sam was VPE at Purisma, where he was responsible for all product development activities. Other positions he held include Director of Product Marketing – Architecture and Infrastructure at Siebel Systems, VPE at Sales.com, and co-founder and CTO at DocuMagix. Sam is active in various professional groups in Silicon Valley and is a partner at Sand Hill Angels, a private equity firm. He has a B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University.
Ed Komo
Ed Komo oversees all development and engineering functions of the Jigsaw site and platform. This includes the business intelligence, data warehouse, accounting, and back office reconciliation systems. Ed joined Jigsaw from Hotwire.com where he served as VPE. At Hotwire, Ed oversaw all development and engineering functions of the company’s e-commerce site, the business intelligence and data warehouse as well as the back office corporate financial system. His major accomplishments include a complete rebuilding of the Hotwire e-commerce application platform and all related structure and processes to radically increase the scalability and stability of Hotwire e-commerce site.
Prior to Hotwire, Ed served as Chief Architect for 2Logix Corp. Also, at several firms, he held senior engineering and management positions. These include AllBusiness.com, Context Integration, Oracle Corporation, and Honeywell Bull. Ed earned his MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He also holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Byron S. Lee
Byron is currently Vice President of Engineering at LogLogic Inc, the leader in log management, compliance management and security management solutions, where he leads Development, including the LogLogic Applications, Platform and LogLabs teams. Prior to LogLogic, Byron was Vice President of Engineering at AlphaDetail Inc, where he helped to grow an early stage startup to over $10 million in revenue. Byron has over 25 years of experience, from applied research at the IBM Almaden Research Center, to biotechnology lab automation, internet infrastructures, embedded systems, hardware & virtual appliances and software as a service..
Byron has built, coached, and managed diverse technical professionals into effective multi-disciplinary teams, including Software, Hardware and Firmware Engineers, Web and Flash developers, Usability and Graphic Artists, Middleware technologists, System & Network Admins, DBAs, Corporate IT, as well as QA, Manufacturing & Technical Operations.
Byron has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is happily married and is fortunate they enjoy golf, despite the fact he plays horribly, even on the Nintendo Wii.
Mike Moody
Michael “Mike” Moody is currently VP of Engineering and Support for Jaspersoft, a commercial open source BI company. Prior to JasperSoft, Mike headed CenterBoard’s EII product engineering development, QA, and operations. He has built a career around managing complex engineering teams and delivering quality products on time. He brings with him more than 25 years of management experience in the software engineering field.
Prior to CenterBoard, Mike was VP of Engineering Operations at Portal Software. He was responsible for all the company’s mainstream product and feature releases, overseeing performance engineering/benchmarking, program management, release engineering, QA, documentation, and custom engineering for strategic accounts. He enjoys hiking and plans to summit all of California’s 14k summits.
“Special thanks go to my wife Barbara for her patience and support during this 2+ year effort.”
Jacob A. Taylor
Jacob A. Taylor recently created SugarCRM, one of the world’s best CRM applications and platforms for application development. Jacob designed, developed, and led the development of SugarCRM for four years in his role as CTO and Co-Founder. This role continued his streak of developing stable, scalable, high performance, parallel processing, fault tolerant, and enterprise grade software. Sun Microsystems Inc. recently published a benchmark where Jacob’s architecture achieved “almost linear scalability” between 900 and 3,200 concurrent users. Jacob pioneered a scalable and intuitive CTI system at E.piphany that leveraged real-time CTI controls in a thin-client browser and scaled to over 10,000 concurrent users. Prior to E.piphany, Jacob helped keep the world safe with the Norton AntiVirus team at Symantec, building an enterprise management console scalable to controlling over 250,000 computers.
Jacob specializes in making complicated systems and algorithms fast, efficient, and easy to understand. Jacob is passionate about designing software that people like to use and find easy to understand. He firmly believes that fast, intuitive, and stable programs will get more users than their competition. Jacob believes that programs should be designed and developed to maximize the benefit they provide to the user. Jacob is also a big proponent of letting outside developers expand software with the same capabilities as internal developers. He has seen how this results in the variety of uses and number of ideas expanding exponentially. Jacob currently holds a US software patent for his innovative row level security model. Jacob earned his BS in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA and an MS in Artificial Intelligence from UCLA. While planning his next activity, Jacob is spending time with his beautiful wife Yousun and two adorable children Aeryn and Austin.
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